News - Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese

The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party and former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar on Wednesday appeared before the National Peace Committee convened by Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar (RTD) and Catholic Bishop of Sokoto diocese, REV. Fr. Mathew Hassan Kukah, where he signed the peace accord for the 2019 general elections.

The speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, says the house is committed to its role of rescuing Nigeria from the clutches of hunger, poverty, political and infrastructural challenges.
Dogara said this in Keffi while addressing representatives of key sectors in Nasarawa state on the role of the legislature in...

Democracy is said to be the best form of government because it allows the people to decide who governs them.
At a forum in Abuja, Bishop Kukah pointed out that for any country to progress democratically, the political players must be deeply involved in the pursuit of the tenants of democracy.
The...

The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Abuja branch, on Thursday, reiterated its resolve to tackle indiscipline within the profession.
The Chairman of the branch, Mr Agada Elachi, announced this at the inauguration of the new executive members of the association in Abuja.
He said that the level of indiscipline in the profession was...

The Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Most Rev. Mathew Hassan Kukah, on Thursday in Abuja proposed the use of noncustodial sentence for lesser crimes in order to decongest the nation’s prisons.
Kukah told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that noncustodial punishments would also enable the Federal Government to redirect revenue...

Bishop Mathew Hassan Kukah, the Catholic Bishop of Sokoto diocese, on Thursday advised inmates of Sokoto prisons to move closer to God.
He made this declaration when he visited the prisons as part of activities to mark this year's Christmas saying that God never failed His servants.
He also said that the...